Transpersonal Philosophy

  Ila . Are my anxiety and my desire forms of Speech? Sura . They are. They appear and disappear spontaneously. Anxiety and desire are  forms of the Speech of the Will of Life, which you later elaborate in different  reflections in your Feeling and your Thinking. What questions does the jasmine  whose perfume already climbs into your eyes raise in you?

  When our thinking proceeds mechanically, we use lexicalized imagination structures, id est, protocolized and fixed representations that for a given input give the same imaginative output, in theoretical structures of various kinds, legal, scientific, ethical, artistic, religious. This form of imagination, already mechanized, lexicalized, fixed in procedures and methods, is also imagination, or rather a dead carcass of imagination, a mummy of what in another moment was something alive and full of potential energy. To the non-mechanical form of imagination we call "creative imagination" or “active imagination” the living imagination that updates its meanings and contents with each of its appearances. I understand this force as an impulse of expansion of Life-Intelligence outside the limits of symbols related to everyday experience, it is a second-order symbolic force, like general abstraction, but endowed with a unique emotional vitality and directed by a princip...

  The right to instantaneous and universal satisfaction (as a birthright) of our desires and projects, demanded by contemporary humans, perversely conditions our sense of Reality. It is generally considered that only what is immediate, common to a majority and connectable to an egoic volition is Real. But Symbolic Reality is not conditioned by the ego, not even by the intellect as a whole with all its arsenal of conscious and accessible memories. The Symbolic Reality, Mithal, permeates our triple Soul, it is everything that we perceive around us as the world, the totality of our human interactions, identities and valuations, our religions, arts and sciences, our everyday life. Religion and Art are in a sense the group counterparts to individual dreams, serving the purpose of consolidation of social identity through genuine self-conscious expression. This leads us to an important understanding: dreams are social and cultural actions, not individual, just like vigil expe...